The timing of the initial India–Asia collision and the mechanisms that led to the eventual
formation of the high (> 5 km) Tibetan Plateau remain enigmatic. In this Review, we describe …

Abstract The Mesozoic Western Pacific subduction system significantly impacted the North
China and South China blocks along the East Asian continental margin and influenced the …

太平洋板块是一个中生代以来形成的地球上最大的大洋板块, 但其起源机制, 结构构造,
构造演化等始终不清楚. 太平洋板块内部的复杂性更是未受到重视, 其内部的大火成岩省 …

The continental crust is unique to the Earth in the solar system, and controversies remain
regarding its origin, accretion and reworking of continents. The plate tectonics theory has …

To address the question of the initiation and mechanisms involved in the process of
subduction zone formation, we explored most of the available evidence for the subduction …

Abstract Yanshanian (ca. 200–100 Ma) metallogeny of eastern Asia was dominantly
controlled by oblique subduction and rollback of the Izanagi plate, and also, more locally in …

Back-arc basins and the related subduction systems have been extensively studied,
however back-arc basins exhibiting episodic jumps of extension centers by the subduction …

The Jiaodong gold province in northeastern China is the country's premier gold resource
and globally one of the most important gold provinces. The late Early Cretaceous gold …

Abstract The East Asian continental margin straddles the boundary between the Pacific
Subduction Domain to the east and the Tethyan Collision Domain to the west. The spatial …

How deep mantle processes affected plate interactions and the dynamics of deformation on
both sides of the Paleo-Pacific has been a first order scientific challenge. The ubiquitous …